If the call to Nationalism aims at supporting Islam and protecting its rituals, then nationalists will dedicate their efforts to invite people to Islam, support it and implement its constitution which is revealed from above the seven heavens and will hasten to adopt its morals, act in accordance with what it calls for, and keep away from anything that contradicts it, because it is the main foundation, the sublime aim, the path that whoever follows and is upright on will reach the shore of safety and will gain Paradise and honor. Moreover, whoever stays away from it will fail and regret and will lose in this life and in the Hereafter. Thus, if the callers to Nationalism aim, by their call to it, to glorify Islam, serve it and raise its position, then they will not restrict themselves to calling for the servant to the exclusion of the served, and will not dedicate
their efforts to this servant and will not get angry from the callers to Islam when they call people to it and warn against that which contradicts it or stands in its way.
If the callers to Nationalism want, by their call, to raise the word of Islam high, to gather and unite Arabs on it, then they will advise Arabs and invite them to abide by the teachings of Islam and implement its rulings, encourage them to support it and to invite people to it. This is because Arabs are the most deserving ones to support Islam, protect it from the plots of the enemies, make it the judge concerning things over which they dispute among themselves as practiced by their predecessors. This is because Islam is their dignity, remembrance and glory.
Indeed, We have sent down for you (O mankind) a Book (the Qur'ân) in which there is Dhikrukum,(your Reminder or an honour for you i.e. honour for the one who follows the teaching of the Qur'ân and acts on its teachings). Will you not then understand?
So hold you (O Muhammad ﺻﻠﻰ ﺍﷲ ﻋﻠﻴﻪ ﻭ ﺳﻠﻢ) fast to that which is revealed to you. Verily you are on the Straight Path. And verily this (the Qur'ân) is indeed a Reminder for you (O Muhammad ﺻﻠﻰ ﺍﷲ ﻋﻠﻴﻪ ﻭ ﺳﻠﻢ) and your people (Quraish people, or your followers), and you will be questioned (about it).
If you, O reader, know what has been mentioned, then you should know that this call: namely, the call to Arab Nationalism has been innovated by the westerners from among the Christians to fight Islam and to destroy it on its own ground by the means of beautifying their speech, different types of imagination and styles of deception. Many Arabs from among the enemies of Islam adopted this call, many from among the inexperienced and the ignorant who imitated them were deceived by it and the leaders of atheism and the antagonists of Islam became so happy about it. It is a wellknown fact about the religion of Islam that the call to Arab Nationalism or to other types of Nationalism, is a false call, a big mistake, a manifest evil, ignorance and a plot against Islam and its followers. This is due to some reasons:
First: Calling to Arab Nationalism differentiates between Muslims and separates an Arab Muslim from a nonArab Muslim and it also divides Arabs themselves because not all of them are satisfied with it, but a group of them accepts it and another group rejects it, and every idea that divides Muslims and turns them into parties is a false idea in contradiction with Islam and its purposes, because Islam calls for unity and coherence and advising each other with truth and cooperation on
righteousness and piety, as indicated by Allah (Glorified be He) says:
O you who believe! Fear Allâh (by doing all that He has ordered and by abstaining from all that He has forbidden) as He should be feared. [Obey Him, be thankful to Him, and remember Him always], and die not except in a state of Islâm [as Muslims (with complete submission to Allâh)]. And hold fast, all of you together, to the Rope of Allâh (i.e. this Qur'ân), and be not divided among yourselves, and remember Allâh's Favour on you, for you were enemies one to another but He joined your hearts together, so that, by His Grace, you became brethren (in Islâmic Faith), and you were on the brink of a pit of Fire, and He saved you from it. Thus Allâh makes His Ayât (proofs, evidence, verses, lessons, signs, revelations, etc.,) clear to you, that you may be guided.
He it is Who has supported you with His Help and with the believers. And He has united their (i.e. believers') hearts. If you had spent all that is in the earth, you could not have united their hearts, but Allâh has united them. Certainly He is AllMighty, AllWise.
(And remain always) turning in repentance to Him (only), and be afraid and dutiful to Him; and perform AsSalât (IqâmatasSalât) and be not of AlMushrikûn (the polytheists, idolaters, disbelievers in the Oneness of Allah). Of those who split up their religion (i.e. who left the true Islâmic Monotheism), and became sects, [i.e. they invented new things in the religion (Bid'ah ), and followed their vain desires], each sect rejoicing in that which is with it.
Consider, O Muslim who is interested in knowing the truth, how Islam fights against division and disputes, and calls for unity, coherence, abiding by the rope of truth and dying on it. You should understand from that, that the aims of Nationalism are unlike the aims of Islam and its purposes are different from the purposes of Islam. This is also proved by the fact that this idea; namely, the call to Arab Nationalism came to us from our western enemies and that they plotted against Muslims through it. Their aim behind it is to divide and separate them from each other, to destroy their entity and to dismantle them, following their evil rule: (divide and rule). How much did those people harm Islam and its followers by following this miserable rule, and this saddens the hearts and makes the eyes tear.
Moreover, many of the historians who recorded the call to Arab Nationalism, and one of them is the author of the Arabic Encyclopedia, said that the first to call to Arab Nationalism towards the end of the nineteenth century of the Christian Era, were the westerners at the hands of missionaries in Syria in order to separate the Turks from Arabs and to divide Muslims. This call to the Arab Nationalism continued in
A lSham (The Levant), Iraq and Lebanon and it grew until its first conference was held in Paris in 1910, and because of this many Arabic organizations appeared and many trends varied, and thus, the Turks tried to extinguish it by the executions made by Jamal Pasha in Syria at that time, until the end of the story. Then, do you think, O reader, that our foes and enemies work for our interests by their innovation of their calling to Arab Nationalism, holding conferences for it and sending missionaries to promote it? Nay, by Allah, they do not
want any goodness for us and they do not work for our interests; rather, they work and endeavor to destroy us, to dismantle us and to finish off what has been left of our religion. This is enough evidence for every soundminded person to know the aim behind the call to Arab Nationalism and to know that it is a western colonizing hoe aiming at dividing us and keeping us away from our religion as has been previously mentioned.
From the continuous astonishment is that many of our youth and writers, may Allah guide them to the right path, became unaware of this truth until they thought that assembling and gathering around Arab Nationalism and supporting it are more beneficial to Arabs and more harmful to the enemies than assembling and gathering around Islam and supporting it, and this, undoubtedly, is a false thought and a belief in discordance with the truth.
Verily, Allâh will help those who help His (Cause). Truly, Allâh is AllStrong, AllMighty. Those (Muslim rulers) who, if We give them power in the land, (they) enjoin IqamatasSalât [i.e. to perform the five compulsory congregational Salât (prayers) (the males in mosques)], to pay the Zakât and they enjoin AlMa'rûf (i.e. Islâmic Monotheism and all that Islâm orders one to do), and forbid AlMunkar (i.e. disbelief, polytheism and all that Islâm has forbidden) [i.e. they make the Qur'ân as the law of their country in all the spheres of life]. And with Allâh rests the end of (all) matters (of creatures).
May Allah protect me, you and all Muslims from that!
What is distressing, saddening and disgraceful, is to have now, in the Arab world, men calling to Arab Nationalism, devoid of creed or belief in the message and to cut the relationship with the greatest Prophet known to the history of faith, with the strongest personality that ever appeared in the world and with the strongest spiritual bond uniting nations, individuals and the scattered. It is a national crime superseding all other national crimes recorded by the history of this Ummah (nation based on creed). It is a movement of destruction and devastation superseding all the famous destructive movements in history and a miserable decisive step in the way of national destruction and it is homicide.